Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-28
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BACK COUNTIES.
Life ID the Interior. as W. Find 1t Mirr0red IN
the Local Columns I the Regis
tsris Exchanges.
Ashland, Ky, is on the Ohio river, a
few miles below Huntington, w. Va AT
| Ashland the Chesapeake & Ohio road
leaves the Ohio river for the interior oil
Kentucky. Mr.. Huntington has a large
| force actively at work constructing a road
upon the Ohio river bank, from Ashland,
KY, to CoyingtoD, KY; distance about
100 miles. He is also constructing a
bridge over the Ohio river be-
tween . Covington and Cincinnati.
The estimated cost of this road and
bridge is "a, 900, 900. With this road and
bridge completed, st. Louis, Chicago, and
ether Western cities, will be placed In Ill
rect railroad connection with Newport
News and Norfolk, over the Chesapeake x
Ohio road, thereby making H~untington's
railroad system one OF the most important
on the continent, Tor IT now extends from
Newport News, Va, 10 the Pacific coast.
4 Huntington's road on the Ohio river to
Covington, Kentucky, thence by bridge TO
Cincinnati, will, when completed, enable
him To load cars with coal, from lands
situated on the south eide of the Great
Kanawha river, and dump the coal from
his trains right into coal yards in the city
of Cincinnati. This he claims he can do
more cheaply than coal can he transported
by water from Plttburg and delivered III
the coal yards of Cincinnati. Hunting
tons road to COyington, Kentucky, will
be completed, it is said, by January the
first. 1t will enhance greatly the value of
good coal lands situated on and along the
Chesapeake and Ohio road, and on the
southern tributaries of the Great kanawha
river, to-wit, on Coal river, Davis Creek,
Fields creek, Cabin creek, Paint creek,
Armstrong creek, and so on, and must
give these lands the control of the Cincin-
natl market as against Pittsburg coal.
Very unusual interest has been manifest
ed in Martinsburg, during the past few
days, over the trial of William Reredon,
charged with placing cross ties on the b.
& o. railroad, at Tabb's grade on the Both
of August, owing to the fact that eminent
counsel were arrayed on both sides, the
Hon. E. Boyd Faulkner having been en-
ployed to assist the States attorney, and
Senator Faulkner and s. w. Walker re-
tanned for the defence. The case was holly
contested all the way through, occupying
two days in its trial-Monday and Tues
day. Both sides were ably presented,
and powerful arguments made pro
and con. The court house was crowded
during the entire proceedings, and its
usual sombre appearance was frightened
by the presence of a goOdly Sprinkling Of
the fair sex. The evidence was clrCum-
~stantial and inferential and, under the in
struction of the Court, the jury could hot
decide, beyond a reasonable doubt, that
the prisoner had committed the act with
malicious intent, therefore q verdict OF
mot guilty" was rendered. Popular
sympathy seemed to be with the accused,
q youth of sixteen, "a evidenced by the
applause that greeted the verdict.
A few days ago Owen Hawker, a pros
perons farmer of Grant district, MonOnga.
liza county, sold some Of his cattle for
which he received about $500. A short
time after, the family went away from
home leaving the money un~thcuGhtcdly in
a bureau drawer. In their absence some
scamp entered the house and opened the
bureau and rumaged through IL drawer
getting a small SUN of money, and at
tempted to open the drawer which con-
tanned the larger sum, but found it locked.
He got a nail, driving it into the lock and
breaking it, but before he got the drawer
opened was frightened away by a %neighb0r,
whc went to the house on an GRAND. SO
lar rs we can learn, there is no clue TO the
thief except that q strange man was seen
in the neighborh0od about the time of the
occurrence.
The graveyard connected with the Pres
byterian church Oh Muddy creek, in
Greenbrier county, is located oil the site of
an Indian burying ground. In digging
graves the skeletons and implements of
the aborgines are frequently thrown up.
A recent excavation for a grave unearthed
the skeletons OF three Indians and numer-
Gus pieces Of pottery and other relics of
that people. The pottery, from the deco
rations on it, indicated an eye for the ar
tistic, and compared favorably with the
present. An Indian pipe was also thrown
up n few yeors ago in digging a grave.
That the whites, in selecting u site for q
bury ing ground, should unwittingly select
the same plat used by Indians is, to say
the least, a remarkable COinCident.
Miss Amanda, daughter of A. T. Wick
line, of MOnongalia county, was sitting on
a pile of planks and leaning against a
higher pile behind her, when she felt some
thing pluck or pull at her dress on one side
and near the waist. Looking to gee what
1t could he, she saw a large cOpperhead
snake in one Of the interstices between
the planks behind her. Nothing daunted,
she proceeded to dispatch the reptile, and
then discovered that there was a brood of
young ones. After Staying the old one
she pulled down the pile of planks and
found and killed twenty young copper
heads. They were all big enough to show
fight and they showed it.
Great preparations for entertaining the
Nj. L. Conference are going on among that
denomination in Parkersburg. Conference
will convene on the 9th of October and be
in session a week or more. In addition TO
all of the Methodist preachers in West
Virginia there will be present many of the
leading divines of that church in this
country. Among them will probably be
DR.. Upham, of Drew Theological Semi
nary, DR.. Buckley, of New York; DR..
Payne, of Delaware, Ohio; Bishop Foster,
DR.. Cranston, of Cincinnati; DIR. Wheeler
and many Others. Parkersburg will enter
tain them as well as they have ever been
entertained in their lives.
On the 10th of April, 1885, Sarah Sink,
a girl about nineteen years old, married
Benz. Barnes, at his residence in Writ